Thursday, October 18, 2012

"Toning Down" Fences

54 days ago, I started the year-long course, Beyond Layers II, with Kim Klassen. I'm ashamed to say that I started out with great enthusiasm and then fizzled. However, I'm picking up now with the intention of staying the course and hopefully catching up some of the days I missed. The first part of the week, I photographed fences and made a collage: http://www.flickr.com/photos/26473210@N04/8097443720/in/photostream
Today, Kim provided a recipe for "toning down" the color of a fence image. My fences are already toned down because they are dry country images in tones of brown. But it was interesting to try out the recipe and then add some "blur" with the Orton technique.

Original fence image

Image after application of Kim's "recipe" and the Orton technique for blurring